DEAR HARRIETTE: My 23-year-old daughter signed a one-year lease with her boyfriend and moved out of my home without telling me. I discovered that she had left by finding her bedroom completely empty. I am hurt by the way she decided to handle everything. If she feels that she is grown enough to move out and get a place on her own, she should be grown enough to sit down and have a conversation with me about the move.
If you want to understand the impact of polio – if you want to comprehend the heartbreak polio victims feel about the return of infantile paralysis – if you want to sense the bewilderment that polio victims feel about vaccine skepticism – then walk a mile in Stacy Smith’s shoes.
DEAR HARRIETTE: i have been so busy between work and family obligations that i have forgotten some key family dates and even some work responsibilities. I feel like i am barely treading water when it comes to getting things done, which is crazy since i'm the one who is usually on top of things. In part, i think it's because the world is now hybrid. I had been building my schedule based on going from one meeting to the next in a blink by logging onto one zoom after the next.
DEAR DOCTORS: My wife read somewhere that when kids grow up with a do in the house, it can keep them from getting schizophrenia. I know that having a pet can help kids develop responsibility, but preventing mental illness seems like a stretch. Is this based on psychology — or something else?
This New York Times headline captures an important inflection point in the current political campaign: “G.O.P. Redoubles Efforts to Tie Democrats to High Crime Rates.”
My husband, Peter, and I are spending time 'up north' with my parents at their cabin by the lake. Fall is late this year. I mentioned this to Peter on the drive north.
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Yard of the Week honors went to Judith Wilson. She was shown with Juan Solis, who did all the landscaping, yard and house renovations.
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